Jim said: “The kids are all at different levels. For 1st Dan it takes three or four years, 2nd Dan is four or six years and 3rd is eight years.

“It’s a tremendous achievement, it takes many years of training, and for most of them it has been three or four times a week, so it has been very demanding.

“However, all of their hard work and dedication has paid off and I’m really pleased for them.”

Jim added: “The Tokyo 2020 Olympics has included karate, so hopefully seeing these kids doing so well gets people off their sofas and hopefully it inspires kids of the future, knowing that it could one day end up with them winning a medal.”

Other students at the Fairhill club went through kyu gradings and results were: